Bug#390401: Same problem, maybe fixed

[Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> >   http://jim.sh/~jim/tmp/target.tar.gz
> I don't know how DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND=1 would help things.

Neither do I, but it does :)  Here's how to demonstrate it using
target.tar.gz on another system:

  su
  cd /tmp
  tar xzf target.tar.gz
  chroot target

then you can see the problem by running

  apt-get -f install    # dpkg error

Try configuring normally:

  /var/lib/dpkg/info/mdadm.postinst configure
  apt-get -f install    # dpkg error

Try configuring with DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND:
  
  DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND=1 /var/lib/dpkg/info/mdadm.postinst configure
  # (hit enter for each of the configuration prompts)
  apt-get -f install    # works

> Anyway, could you see if using

I'll test that .deb out a bit later tonight or tomorrow, thanks.

-jim